Activity-based costing (ABC) system more precisely allocates the overhead costs to cost objects (products, services or customers) than traditional costing systems. In ABC, resources are consumed by the activities, and multiple cost drivers are used to allocate the costs of activities to the products. The selection of activity and cost drivers is then highly significant. Using too few cost drive...

In energy-limited WSNs, coverage and connectivity are two of the most fundamental QoS issues, which have a great impact on the performance of WSNs for minimizing the node energy consumption and maximizing the network coverage lifetime. Due to the node distribution, the energy consumption among nodes is more imbalanced in cluster-based WSNs. Based on this problem, this paper proposes Sink Mobili...

In the present study, hyperspectral imaging and remote sensing of fluorescence were integrated to monitor nitrogen content in leaves drip-irrigated cotton at different growth periods northern Xinjiang, China. Based on spectrum chlorophyll parameters obtained through shuffled frog-leaping algorithm (SFLA), successive projection (SPA), grey relational analysis (GRA), competitive adaptive reweight...

This paper presents an effective shuffled frogleaping algorithm (SFLA) for solving a lot-streaming flow shop scheduling problem with equal-size sublots, where a criterion is to minimize maximum completion time (i.e., makespan) under both an idling and no-idling production cases. Unlike the original SFLA, the proposed SFLA represents an individual or frog as a job permutation and utilizes a posi...

5.1 INTRODUCTION Nowadays wind farms contributing to the energy production is continuously growing because of their economical and environmental protection attraction. However, large wind farms have higher reactive power demand that may not be easily satisfied. Therefore, connecting the wind farms to the power network becomes a more challenging task and their impacts are likely to be more wides...

Accurately and efficiently determining a system’s physical variables is crucial for precise product-quality control. This study proposes novel method optimal sensor deployment to increase the accuracy of sensing data ensure timely detection product’s particle size in wet-grinding system. approach involves three steps. First, Bayesian network (BN) designed model cause–effect relationship between...